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U.N. Summit Lays the Table for Environmental Reporting on Food Systems [1]

After an 18-month buildup, a one-day U.N. Food Systems Summit earlier this fall generated hundreds of commitments to end global hunger and a dizzying array of alliances dedicated to the cause. Despite controversies surrounding the summit, this groundbreaking event highlighted opportunities for reporting on food and food systems. Award-winning agriculture journalist Chris Clayton shares his insights.

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Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [5]
Chemicals [6]
Climate Change [7]
Consumer [8]
Disasters [9]
Economy & Business [10]
Energy & Fuel [11]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
Food [15]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
Laws & Regulations [19]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Planning & Growth [22]
Policy [23]
Pollution [24]
Science [25]
Technology [26]
Waste [27]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
California [29]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [30]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [31]
International [32]
Canada [33]
Africa [34]
Europe [35]
Middle East [36]
South America [37]
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Public [38]
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Laws Offer Little Protection to Expected 200 Million Climate Refugees [39]

"Negotiators at COP26 are unlikely to deal with the challenges posed by climate migration, a failure that some experts say shows “a lack of political will.”"

Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Food [15]
Government [16]
People & Population [21]
Planning & Growth [22]
Public [38]
International [32]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 11/03/2021
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Will Animal-To-Human Disease Transmission Bring the Next Big Pandemic? [41]

The COVID-19 outbreak has left little unchanged — including how environment reporters do their jobs, given that many experts believe the disruption of the human-wild interface could be the source of the next deadly virus. The new Backgrounder makes the case in this analysis, looking at how societies — and journalists — handled this pandemic and must prepare for possible future outbreaks.

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Agriculture [4]
Biodiversity [5]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Health [12]
Forests [43]
Government [16]
Health [17]
Journalism & Media [18]
People & Population [21]
Science [25]
Wildlife [44]
Region: 
National (U.S.) [28]
International [32]
Asia [45]
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Public [38]
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November 11, 2021 to November 13, 2021

Between Worlds: Emergence in an Emergency [46]

The Bioneers 2021 virtual conference features best-selling authors, MacArthur "geniuses," Goldman Prize recipients and others to discuss connections and projects drawing on Indigenous and nature-based knowledge to bridge the space between the world as it is, and what it could be. Also included: interactive sessions. 

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Activism [3]
Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Diversity [48]
Environmental Health [12]
Forests [43]
Infrastructure [49]
Natural Resources [20]
People & Population [21]
Religion, Faith and Spirituality [50]
Technology [26]

‘We Can’t Live Like This’: Climate Shocks Rain On Honduras’s Poorest [51]

"Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits".

Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Environmental Justice [13]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
Central America & the Caribbean [52]
Source: Guardian [53], 10/29/2021
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"Climate Change Poses a Widening Threat to National Security" [54]

"The Biden administration released several reports Thursday about climate change and national security, laying out in stark terms the ways in which the warming world is beginning to significantly challenge stability worldwide."

Agriculture [4]
Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Military [55]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
International [32]
Source: NYTimes [56], 10/22/2021
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"In Harm’s Way: Our Actions Put People And Wildlife At Risk Of Disease" [57]

"While global attention is currently focused on COVID-19 and other zoonotic diseases that jump from animals to humans, diseases that breach the species barrier also pass from people and domestic animals to wild species."

Biodiversity [5]
Environmental Health [12]
People & Population [21]
Wildlife [44]
Public [38]
International [32]
Source: Mongabay [58], 10/21/2021
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Amid Massive Roundup Cancer Suits, Migrant Farmworkers Are Left Out [59]

"Hampered by fear and deprived of resources, migrant farmworkers are unlikely to come forward and seek restitution."

Agriculture [4]
Chemicals [6]
Environmental Health [12]
Environmental Justice [13]
Laws & Regulations [19]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: EHN [60], 10/19/2021
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Indigenous Activists Demonstrate on Climate In Front of White House [61]

"Casey Camp-Horinek, a tribal elder from White Eagle, Okla., and environmental ambassador for the Ponca Nation, marched in the front of a crowd of hundreds headed toward the White House on Monday and held up her fist."

Activism [3]
Climate Change [7]
Environmental Justice [13]
Environmental Politics [14]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
National (U.S.) [28]
Source: Washington Post [62], 10/12/2021
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"Mass Floods Hit China’s Coal Hub, Threatening Power Supplies" [63]

"China’s largest coal-producing region was hit by severe flooding, threatening the country’s already strained power supply and displacing more than 120,000 people as residents called for help from other regions."

Climate Change [7]
Disasters [9]
Energy & Fuel [11]
People & Population [21]
Public [38]
Asia [45]
Source: Washington Post [64], 10/12/2021
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